A Festivus pole made of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans is on display at the Capitol across the rotunda from a Nativity scene.

Chaz Stevens, 49, of Deerfield Beach, erected his display Wednesday. It is a 6-foot-tall pole made of empty Pabst Blue Ribbon cans and is part of a celebration of a non-secular holiday featured on a 1997 episode of "Seinfeld."

A group called the Florida Nativity Scene Committee put up their depiction of Jesus' birth last week, followed two days later by a banner from the Freedom From Religion Foundation that expresses support for the separation of government and religion.

The Department of Management Services approved Stevens' application to display the pole.

"This is not my first foray into the Pabst Blue Ribbon Festivus pole," Stevens told WPBF.com by telephone on his way back from Tallahassee.

Stevens said he made another Festivus pole last year in Deerfield Beach to accompany the menorah and nativity scene outside City Hall as a way to call attention to the separation of church and state.

Stevens said he thought of the "most ridiculous thing" he could come up with to make his point before settling on his "stick of stupidity."

Surprisingly, he said, he's received backlash from "'Seinfeld' purists," as well as the usual "Bible-thumpers."

Stevens, though, said he only wanted to make a point.

"This whole thing was just a gesture of ridiculousness," he said.

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